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So "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" is fair game?

Wood be woody. Buy from somewhere who are willing to go the extra mile and weigh the bass(es) for you prior to buying.

I've never had an issue with DPD, like ever. The app's great, gives me a 1 hour window, a wee map where the driver is and a countdown of the number of stops. I've got a gigbag arriving today, as it happens, just had my half hour warning of its arrival. Maybe I'm just lucky?

I'm a bit of both - was self taught up to a point, then I took some in person lessons. They were definitely worth it - it put names to and reasons behind some of the things I was doing, helped me weed out some bad habits and opened my mind a bit to new things. I'm still a luddite in many respects (can only read music at a rate of a note every few seconds, don't know much theory), but I probably wouldn't have started writing songs without receiving a few pointers from someone in the know. I didn't continue with the lessons, so I guess I'm back to being self taught again, but the few months I did them really helped kick things along.

When I only took one bass to the gig, it was a different one almost every time. I think one refers to the actual number of basses on stage at any time rather than taking THE one every time.

That would necessitate banks talking to each other more than they currently do, I suspect. As for instant notification, depends on the bank app. Monzo is good at that - as soon as something happens to your account (be it money going in or out) it pings up a notification. Other banks and banking apps are available...

Close - keys, sax, trombone. Yes, noseflute - exactly!

Only one bass, but there's no guitarist in The Inevitable Teaspoons.

Surely clipping is more of an amplitude issue rather than a fault of any particular frequency? Reduce the amplitude of the bass track to bring it in balance with the others in the overall mix, job done? Or is this why I'm not a producer/engineer?

It's surely difficult these days to get a P bass wrong, whoever makes it.

That end bit smells odious to me. Were you drunk when you wrote this, it's a little garbled? I'm looking for any benefit of the doubt before coming away with the impression that you're a right wing racist.

When I read this I thought to myself "you've just answered your own question". Crack on

Unfortunately, I have played gigs where this has been entirely possible

Don't feel bad, Gibson don't know what Gibson makes half the time

I used to be in the "bass and go" camp (80s shampoo ad reference, you bloody millenials/zoomers). My change in stance says more about faith in my own ability to modify/maintain my basses than anything else. I recently did a rewire job and I ballsed it up completely to the point where I couldn't face debugging it and handed it off to get done. That shook me up and made me question the stability of all the other basses I've either modded (Freeway switch in the Reverend Triad) or copper shielded (you're welcome, G&L, you lazy gits!). Since then, I've taken two to the gig.

Honestly, it doesn't get much use being a backup thing and all, but it's worked every time I've dragged it out to do a bit of home recording. Apart from that, it rattles around in my gigging bits and bobs bag (admittedly in its box) week in, week out. Consider this - at the price they are available for does it matter if you have to replace it once in a while? You can buy like 6 of them for the price of a Sansamp. I highly doubt you'll make 6 go pop in your lifetime. #justsayin

I have one of those as my get out of jail free(ish) card in case of amp failure.

Do you have to understand? I hope it doesn't keep you up at night.

I can personally attest to the fact that the Custom Shop Ripper replacement pickups are excellent. If you've got a Ripper to restore, don't waste time waiting for potentially dodgy old Ripper pickups to appear in the second hand market - just noise up SD.

Or a Mastermind specialist subject...

This sounds like the kind of microscopic, nerdy af detail video I could get on board with

+1 - pretty much the whole reason I ended up getting a Mojomojo for my overdrive - being a guitar pedal I would have probably never even looked near it without seeing his review/cheap bass overdrive shootout.

Eh, I see people videoing all the time at gig, but it's just for their goldfish bowl instagram following, or whatever the f tiktok is - we never see a thing.

Mistakes are but fleeting moments in time. Back when I was starting out, Mrs. Neepheid had way more experience than me, singing and playing sax in bands. She took a teatowel in her hand and said "See this? This is your mistake", then quickly scrumpled it up and threw it behind her over her shoulder. I'd say one's own personal mistakes on bass - don't dwell on it, just keep going. If it's a bad one, take a breath, join back in at the next phrase/repetition of riff/verse/chorus. In more widespread muckups, if the singer skips to the wrong bit of song, go with them or else it's going to sound daft. I have learned to make light of mistakes - a smile, a nod, a laugh between band members looks way better than scowls and looking daggers at each other. 'Twas not always so - my drummer is still mentally scarred from the Death Stare of '09...

I think this is one of the reasons I didn't used to bother taking a backup for years. "Who does this jumped up twit think he is?" etc. Nowadays I do, but the backup is waiting in the wings, still in its bag/case.